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Patches Sent Out For Booting Linux On Apple M3 But Without Much Functionality

1 hodina 21 min zpět
Asahi Linux developers have been working for a while now on porting Asahi Linux to the Apple M3 hardware that launched back in 2023. Sent out today to the Linux kernel mailing list were finally Device Tree files for booting Linux on Apple M3 hardware but it's far from functional for end-users...

Linux Patches Updated To Steal Tasks For Improving CPU Utilization

2 hodiny 8 min zpět
Huawei engineer Chen Jinghuang posted the latest request for comments (RFC) patches for stealing tasks from overloaded CPUs in the same last level cache (LLC) in order to improve overall CPU utilization with today's large core count servers...

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces MicroCloud Cluster Manager

3 hodiny 41 min zpět
Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today MicroCloud Cluster Manager that is now in beta as a new cloud platform for managing lightweight cloud clusters...

Vulkan 1.4.347 Debuts With Three New Extensions

3 hodiny 50 min zpět
Vulkan 1.4.347 made its debut overnight as the latest routine update to this high performance graphics and compute API. Beyond the usual maintenance churn over the past week, Vulkan 1.4.347 brings three new extensions...

Mageia 10 Beta Now Available For Those Who Reminisce About Mandrake Linux

3 hodiny 54 min zpět
It's been nearly three years since the release of Mageia 9 for this Linux distribution who's lineage traces back to the glorious Mandrake Linux. Following the Mageia 10 alpha release back in January, Mageia 10 beta builds are now available...

Linux 7.1 Adding DRM Dedicated CRTC Background Color Property

4 hodiny 13 min zpět
Sent out today was the latest weekly round of drm-misc-next patches for queuing ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window that is set to happen in mid-to-late April...

Steam Linux Beta Prepares For 64-bit, Can Be Run Inside Steam Runtime Container

4 hodiny 27 min zpět
An interesting new Steam client beta dropped overnight from Valve with some exciting low-level enhancements...

Microsoft's DXGKRNL Driver Updated For Linux - Many Changes After Four Years

19. Březen 2026 - 22:21
Well, here's an unexpected surprise... A new version of the Linux kernel patches for DXGKRNL were posted today for that DirectX kernel driver that began a few years ago for supporting Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL) use-cases. This comes four years to the month after the prior version was posted and without much excitement for getting it into the mainline Linux kernel...

Thunderbird Looks To Finalize Its Exchange Support, Refresh The Calendar UI

19. Březen 2026 - 20:42
Thunderbird announced today the availability of their public roadmaps where they are making it easier for end-users to comprehend what they are currently working on for this mail client not only for the desktop builds but also their Android and iOS versions too...

AMD Preps More GFX12.1 Enablement For Linux 7.1, Initial VCN 5.0.2 & JPEG 5.0.2 IP

19. Březen 2026 - 20:25
AMD today sent out another batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver changes to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window...

Wayland 1.25 Released With Color Management Now Fully Documented

19. Březen 2026 - 17:20
Simon Ser just released Wayland 1.25...

Blender 5.1 Delivers Some Nice Gains For CPU Rendering Performance On Linux

19. Březen 2026 - 17:05
With this week's release of Blender 5.1 I have begun benchmarking it on different CPUs and GPUs. In this article is an initial look at the positive impact Blender 5.1 is having on CPU-based rendering performance on Linux.

GNUnet 0.27 Released For Those With "Some Reasonable Pain Tolerance"

19. Březen 2026 - 16:29
Version 0.27 of GNUnet is now available for this free software framework for constructing decentralized, peer-to-peer networking. But it comes with some big caveats before use...

Mozilla Releases Llamafile 0.10 To Enhance Their AI Offering For Easy-To-Use LLMs

19. Březen 2026 - 13:21
The last release of Llamafile was back in May and it's led me recently to wonder if Mozilla was slowly abandoning this AI project like they had done in the past to DeepSpeech and other software projects. Fortunately, that's not the case and out today is Llamafile 0.10 with some big updates...

OpenGL Lands New Extension To Benefit Wine

19. Březen 2026 - 13:05
The OpenGL API is still seeing new extensions introduced in 2026. Merged today to the OpenGL Registry is a new extension intended to help Wine usage for 32-bit Windows games/apps on 64-bit Linux systems...

Opera GX Web Browser Released For Linux

19. Březen 2026 - 11:22
It's been a while since most of you probably thought about the Opera web browser, but these days they have been catering their "Opera GX" web browser to gamers. Today they have finally delivered this Opera GX gaming-focused browser for Linux users...

Virtual Swap Space Patches Updated For Improving Linux's Swap Design

19. Březen 2026 - 11:19
The fourth iteration of patches implementing Virtual Swap Space for Linux were sent out on Wednesday. This stems from ideas going back years for an abstraction to better separate a swap entry from its physical backing storage...

Linux 7.1 Should See Working HDMI Support For The Lichee Pi 4A RISC-V Board

19. Březen 2026 - 11:13
Drew Fustini sent out DeviceTree patches this past weekend for enabling the HDMI display controller on the T-Head TH1520 RISC-V SoC. Additionally, there's a patch for lighting up the HDMI display support on the LicheePi 4A RISC-V board...

Canonical Collecting Wish List Ideas For Improving Mir

19. Březen 2026 - 11:04
With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS quickly approaching release next week, Canonical is beginning more of their road-mapping for Ubuntu 26.10 and beyond. To help in plotting future work, Canonical is interested in feedback for features or improvements that developers/users would like to see around their Mir project...

AMD Prototyping AMDGPU SVM Atop DRM_GPUSVM Framework

18. Březen 2026 - 21:24
AMD engineers are experimenting with a proof-of-concept implementation of a Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) implementation atop the DRM_GPUSVM framework...